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Selling a Year's Supply Of Contacts Saves You Payroll Costs

7/11/2017

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I know some Optometrists who don’t worry about selling a year’s supply of contacts.
 
They tell me that their patients buy all their contacts from them anyway, but they just don’t buy a year’s supply at one time. The assumption is that their patients call in three to four times a year, so there is no need to push it. If that is your situation, good for you, but there is one problem with that scenario. You are losing money. Let me explain.
 
Let’s say your patient gets contacts from you four times a year: at their yearly exam and every three months after that. Well, those three times that they call in throughout the year cost you money. Your employee answers the phone three times, pulls their chart/looks them up on the computer three times, orders their contacts three times, processes their orders when they come in three times, calls your patient back three times, and dispenses those contacts three times. Yeah, you received your patient’s money for a year’s supply, but you wound up making a lot less money because of payroll costs.
 
Maybe each of those interactions took 10 minutes of your employee’s time (that is a low estimate). That employee makes $12.50 an hour. Tem minutes is worth a little over $2. Since your patient keeps calling in, you paid your employee $6-$8 to process all of those orders which makes your already thin profit on contacts even smaller.
 
Selling a year’s supply at the exam is the wisest, most economical way to go for you and your patients. It saves you payroll and makes your patient encounter more efficient:  a win for you, your employee, and the patient.
 
Gordon Duncan is the CEO/Consultant of
ProSight Success, advising the eye care industry.
 
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    Gordon Duncan

    Gordon Duncan is an award-winning educator, salesman, teacher, manager, and writer. He has taught in the public school system, lobbied for school's accreditation, managed eye clinics, led sales' teams, and also publishes books on theology, church, and culture.

    He has been happily married to Amy for over 20 years and is the proud father of 3 wonderful girls. 

    He is a graduate of East Carolina University and Reformed Theological Seminary. 

    He has been in the eye industry since 1999, an elder in the Presbyterian Church of America (PCA) since 2000, planted Sovereign King Church in Garner, NC in 2005, and planted Evident Grace Church in Fredericksburg, VA in 2013. 

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